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Chet Baker (Trumpet/Vocals/Composer): Chet Baker (vocals, trumpet); Ed Peterson (tenor saxophone); Larry Gray, Rusty Jones , Bradley Young.
Recorded two years before Chet Baker's death in 1988, CHET IN CHICAGO captures the legendary trumpeter during a return visit to his native soil (Baker spent most of the last two decades of his life in Europe). Although problems with deteriorating health had affected Baker's playing in the `70s, he had recaptured some of his glorious tone in the `80s, and his work on CHET IN CHICAGO is lyrical and expressive. Baker is flanked by pianist Bradley Young, drummer Rusty Jones, and bassist Larry Gray, who provide taut, agile support, while saxophonist Ed Peterson adds fire to the more uptempo tracks. These include a vigorous take on Charlie Parker's "Ornithology," among other surprises. But the king of cool still shines on ballads, and does so here on "We'll Be Together Again" and his signature "My Funny Valentine." Unreleased until 2008, CHET IN CHICAGO is a winning document of late-period Baker.
Personnel: Ed Petersen (tenor saxophone); Bradley Young (piano); Larry Gray (bass instrument); Rusty Jones (drums).
Audio Remasterers: Christoph Stickel; Christoph Stickel.
Liner Note Authors: Scott Yanow ; Carroll Baker; Bradley Young.
Recording information: 05/11/1986.
Photographer: Gorm Valentin.Down Beat (p.76) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Baker is at his best on the ballads, and his lyricism is made apparent right up front with his slow introduction to 'Old Devil Moon.'" Chet Baker Chet In Chicago Songs | 1. | Old Devil Moon  | $0.99 | |
| 2. | It's You or No One | $0.99 | |
| 3. | We'll Be Together Again | |
| 4. | Ornithology | |
| 5. | Crazy Rhythm | |
| 6. | My Funny Valentine | |
| 7. | Sippin' at Bells | |
| 8. | Solar | $0.99 | |
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Chet In Chicago Music Review Purchase Chet In Chicago CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Frank Wess Quartet CD (1960)
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Frank Wess has long been one of the most underrated flautists in jazz, but it's his primary instrument on this CD reissue of a Moodsville LP recorded in 1960. With fine accompaniment by piano master Tommy Flanagan, bassist Eddie Jones and drummer Bobby Donaldson, the leader's lyrical chops are evident in Alec Wilder's rarely performed ballad "It's So Peaceful in the Country." The light Latin setting of "Star Eyes" initially spotlights Flanagan's elegant piano, with the rhythm switching gears as Wess works his magic on flute. Flanagan alone introduces the dreamy interpretation of "But Beautiful," while Wess will melt any heart with his gorgeous flute solo. Wess is best known for his swinging tenor saxophone, heard on the richly textured "Gone With the Wind," a spacious "Stella by Starlight" (which will rival any saxophonist's recording for pure beauty), as well as his bluesy original "Rainy Afternoon," with Donaldson's light percussion possibly suggesting stepping ...
| | Dizzy Gillespie Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 CD (2005)
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The historic live Town Hall sessions by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker from 1945 have been discovered on an acetate pressing, and are transferred with digital enhancement to CD. Why this concert was not issued initially is understandable, but Ira Gitler's informative and insightful liner notes suggest they likely were misplaced. What Gitler's essential writing also reveals is that these dates were approximate by only weeks to the original studio recordings of these classics, and there was no small amount of controversy surrounding this revolutionary bebop. Clearly bop was a vehicle for intricate melodic invention followed by lengthy soloing, aspects of which Parker with Gillespie were perfectly suited for. Fact is, the situation surrounding the sonic capture and extended neglected shelf life of this performance was far from optimal. Symphony Sid Torin is the M.C., rambling as always, making repeated references to Dizzy "Jillespie" and misidentifying Max Roach as Sid Catlett on "Salt Peanuts." (Catlett does sit in on "Hot House" in a more supportive than demonstrative role.) The tracks with the brilliant Roach are on fire, particularly the super-hot "Salt Peanuts," with pianist Al Haig flying beside him. Haig is perhaps the most impressive musician. The rhythm section, especially Haig, is more present in the mix and up front, while the trumpet and alto sax are buried. As the concert progresses, it gets better, with Gillespie's muted trumpet clearer. Parker ...
| | Booker Ervin Tex Book Tenor CD (2005)
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Tex Book Tenor was recorded in 1968 as a follow-up to Booker Ervin's debut date for Blue Note, The In Between, which was released in January of the same year. (Ervin had made two records for Pacific Jazz, which is now owned, like Blue Note, by EMI.) The album remained unreleased until 1976, when it was issued with an also unreleased Horace Parlan date on a double LP called Back from the Gig. This is its first appearance on CD. The lineup is stellar and includes Billy Higgins, Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, and bassist Jan Arnet from Czechoslovakia. Barron and Ervin had worked together before, and Arnet had worked with Ervin three years earlier as a touring partner in Germany. The music here includes three Ervin originals, Barron's wonderful "Gichi," and Shaw's "In a Capricornian Way." The Afro-Latin-influenced grooves of "Gichi" display Ervin playing his solo in prime snake-charmer mode. His own "Den Tex" is classic hard bop with Barron and Ervin going head to head throughout. "Lynn's Tune" is a beautiful midtempo ballad with wonderful work by Arnet and a loping solo by Shaw. The closer is "204," a steaming hard bop tune with a killer head featuring the two horns just pushing the tempo before Ervin goes off the map into his solo. Barron's playing is totally inspired, pushing huge chords at both players as they dig into the changes and come out breathing fire. This is a wonderful addition not only to the ...
| | Zoot Sims Zoot Suite CD (2007)
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| | Horace Silver Live At Newport '58 CD (2007)
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The set opens with "Tippin'," a hard swinger, then segues to "The Outlaw," a composition in the classic Silver mode, incorporating exotic rhythms, complex melodic leads, and deep grooves. "Senor Blues," a cool-toned blues, and "Cool Eyes," a frenetic ...
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| | Chris Caffery W.A.R.P.E.D. CD (2005)
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As a technically accomplished, decidedly eccentric, borderline cuckoo musical collaborator, Savatage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra mastermind Jon Oliva couldn't have asked for a better foil than guitarist Chris Caffery, whose first solo album, simply named Faces, positively teemed with two discs' worth of oddball songwriting, instrumental histrionics, and heavy metal-launched schizophrenia. The second of those two discs contained nine songs from a reputedly larger work entitled "God Damn War," and those songs are revisited in grander scale and scope on Caffery's sophomore solo album, 2005's W.A.R.P.E.D. -- featuring an hour-plus mishmash of hard rock and prog-metal styles that, sorry to say, is less Operation: Mindcrime than Extreme's III Sides to Every Story at its most preposterously over the top. Inconceivably leaden, protracted additions to the previously previewed "God Damn War" material, new offerings like "Home Is Where the Hell Is," "Erase," and "State of the Head" are but instrumentally overwrought frameworks for Caffery to spew philosophic, with seemingly little attention paid to compelling songwriting -- never mind entertainment ...
| | Hal Schaefer How Do You Like This Piano Playing? CD (2009)
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